Esther Parnell Hewlett

Born in 1895 and dying in 1975, Esther Parnell Hewlett is remembered today mainly through her pattern books and craft publications, including Designs for Crazy Daisy Winder and many other crochet designs that have continued to circulate through library and reprint catalogs. Her published work suggests a writer focused on clear, usable instructions for everyday makers.

She was also associated with Palomar Mountain in California, where later historical accounts remember her as the "Butterfly Girl" for her long interest in collecting and raising butterflies. That natural-history side of her life appears to have been important enough to inspire later archival and local-history projects devoted to her story.

Reliable portrait information was not clear enough to confirm from the sources I found, so no profile image is included here.